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Catholic School-System To Continue* Bishop Of Burlington Pledg-es ! I I i Pope Paul VI is carried through the audience hall at his summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, during the last audience be- .fore he returned to Vatican City (RNS) Where Is the Love for theXliurc Castel Gandolfa, Italy - (NC) — \Love the Church,\ Pope Paul VI told his final summer audience at his sum- mer residence here and; \beware of the corrosive spirit of criticism that has become fashionable in some sec- tors of Catholic life.\ - Speaking in the audience hall at Castel Gandolfo the day before he re- turned to the Vatican, the Pope stress- ed the need to pay attention to the teachings of the Second Vatican Coun- cil. \We must meditate on and apply the- many and great ideas, which the council itself has left us,\ he said. But, he noted, \some think that the council has already been surpassed and they, remembering only its drive toward reform without taking into ac- count what was established at those solemn Church assemblies, would go further, envisaging certainly not re- forms but upheavals which they be- lieve they can authorize on their own and which they judge to> be all the more clever, the less they are faithful and consistent with tradition, that is to say, with the life of the Church, and all the more inspired the less they conform with the authority and discipline of the Church itself, and. lastly, all the more plausible the less they differ from the mentality and morals oT the century.\ The Pope continued by saying: \\ corrosive spirit of criticism has be- come fashionable In some sectors of Catholic life. There are, for example, magazines and newspapers which seem to have no other function than that of reporting unpleasant news re- garding facts and persons In the ec- clesiastical area.\ These stories, said the Pope do not help form objective judgment but create \negative suspicion ... a pre- conceived lack of esteem for eccle- siastical persons, institutions and ac- tivities, and therefore lead readers and followers to throw aside the re- spect which any good Catholic andr*,*.. Indeed, any honest reader should feel'* ' for the ecclesial community and au- thority.\ Citing the occupation of cathedrals, the approval of inadmissable films (such as an Italian film given a Cath- olic award at the Venice Film Fes- tival recently and later classified by Italian Church authorities as con- demned) and the \collective and con- certed protests against our recent en- cyclical, the propaganda of political violence for social purposes,\ the Pope asked; \Where Is the coherence and dig- nity proper to true Christians . . where Is the love for the Church? 'The love for the Church! We still wish to suppose that it has not been extinguished in persons who call themselves Catholics and who appeal to Christ . . . The more we desire this ecclesial love the greater Is our_ regret at noting how many of these unquiet Catholics started from a high vocation for the apostolate, that is to say, being at the service of and for the spreading of the Church, and how —because of that acid spirit Of nega- tive and habitual criticism of which we are speaking—have become im- poverished and at times emptied of apostolic love to the point where, in certain cases .they become a cause of trouble and are harmful to the Church of God.\ The Pope also declared: \The Church presents today a coun- tenance more worthy of admiration ^thair of reproach and commiseration. Throughout the Church today we note magnificent efforts of authentic re- newal, of Christian vitality, of sanc- tity which is less due to habit and environment, if you will, than of other times, but more personal and aware and also more united and ac- tive.\ Pointing to the renewal being ex- perienced on all levels of the Church, the Pope declared: \All the faithful are called to perfection, every layman to apostolic activity, each Church group is called to responsibility for Be Obedient, Jesuits Told Rome — (NC) — The general of the Society of Jesus has summoned all Jesuits to explain to the world the meaning of Pope Paul VI's con- demnation of contraception. He appealed to the core of the Jesuit's personal vocation, which is to serve God through obedience to the Pope. He appealed to the Jesuits' public vocation, which is to make the Church's thought understood and loved. Father Pedro Arrupe spoke in a 1,000-word letter addressed \to the whole Society.\ He stated at the out- set that he was writing \because op- position to the encyclical has become widespread.\ ' The only response Jesuits can give to the Pope, he said, \is an attitude of obedience which is at once faith- ful, loving, firm, open and truly cre- ative.\ Of the assent owed to the Pope's encyclical, Father Arrupe observed that \a teaching such as the one he presents merits assent not simply because of the reasons he offers but also, and above all, because of the charism that enables him to present It\ The Pope, the general of the Jesuits declared, is a safeguard for the transcendence of the human per- son. \For this reason the service which at this difficult moment we as Jesuits owe to the Holy Father and to the Church is at the same time a service we owe to humanity itself.\ the Church's activity ,eacra conscience and every community to missionary expansion and the entire? Church to the sense of its own unity and of its own catholicity, while thte hard but loyal and ardent resumption of ecu- menical contacts leads Catholics back to their own reform and- to the re- newed capacity for a cordEJal dialogue with the separated brothers.\ English Urge Tolerance on Birth Issue (Continued from Pacge 1) be invoked as a reason for refusing assent to the encyclical.\ The statement said that the fact that the Pope had create* a commis- sion to review the questmon of con- traception tended to confirm doubts about the Church's earlier interpreta- tion of the moral law in this matter. It was widely believed that a change in the Church's attitude would be announced. \Undoubtedly many wlv«s and hus- bands, anticipating the promised state- ment of the Pope, have came to rely on contraception. In this they acted conscientiously and often after seek- ing pastoral advice. They may now be unable to see that at least in their personal circumstances tSie use of contraception is wrong. \Particular difficulty faces those who, after serious thought and prayer, cannot as yet understand «r be fully convinced of the doctrines as laid down. This is not surprisiang in view of the discussions of recent years, which have resulted in tahe present controversy. \For others the problem of putting the doctrine into practice i_n actuality seems insuperable becaimse of HI health or other serious obstacles, sometimes becaus of a conflict of duties. Biurlington, Vt. — (NC) - Bishop Eotert F. Joyce pledged the Catholic school system will be continued, mak- ing an \imuneasurable contribution to the spiritual and moral life\ in the statewide Burlington diocese. The bishop issued a statement after receiving a report from a diocesan task force on education regarding the school problems. He said the report, made after a year of \Intensive study,\ is of \priceless value,\ with reconnmendations of how to meet pres- ent and future problems. '—^ Bishop Joyce noted there are a number of trays the school system can be helped, both from public and private sources. ttement asserted: • \\The diocese of Burlington is committed to maintaining our Catho- lic school system. We believe it makes an immeasurable contribution to the spiritual and. moral life of the diocese, of the State of Vermont, and of all our communities and citizens. • \The diocese as a whole has an obligation to support these schools, as the state has an obligation to sup- port local schools. AH people bene- fit from them directly or Indirectly. Plans for this subsidy are being made. • \The people of Vermont receive a subsidy of more than $7 million each year, representing the cost of educacting the students in Vermont Catholic schools. This takes no ac- count of the cost of providing build- ings, furnishings and equipment whichi totals many millions-of—dolla of capital investment • \There are a number of ways, both from public and private sources, by which help may be provided, with due regard for legal and constitu- tional provisions, and we believe these should be used. • \The religious and moral educa- tion c*f the 28,000 children in public schools is likewise of primary con- cern. -A notably greater investment of personnel and finance has already been made and will continue to grow. • \Adult education is a means of providing directly for children in their homes and daily life. Efforts already undertaken in this field are to be expanded. • \There are categories of adults and children who need special educa- tional care, the retarded, the blind, the deaf, the crippled. Our programs Cardinal Requires Instractloas Rk> de Janeiro — (NC) — Jaime Cardinal de Barros Caman -o£~Rk> de Janeiro has established compul- sory baptismal classes for a|l Parents Torihese^uwtJeveEcping along sesveral lines. - • \These outlines indicate the mag- nitude of the problems in Chrftstlan education which we face. Thej^ are great, but not beyond our resoaurces and strength.\ Laity Given Key Role In Chfcago Chicago— (RNS) -John Car-dinal Cody has announced the appointment of an expanded aarchdiocesan sachool board in which parents have keen given a strong voEce in forming edu- cational policies En the Archdiocese of Chicago, largest in the'UJilted States. The new board, composed of seven lay persons, five apriests, a nun*, *nd a Brother, replaces one which- has seven priests and three membeas of the laity. Cardinal Cody ssaid the new board would have respomsflbility \for devel- oping policies to govern elementary and secondary scahools in the -arch- diocese.\ -He said board •meetings woufed be open to the pnblbc and public Shear- ings on crucial •woes will be* ar- ranged as aeeded. The prelate ask~ed the new fcward not merely to advise him \but to -work out practical pollcLes which will rmerit the consent of all who axe concesmed about the Catholic education off the young.\ He said that bo=ard policies wrould go into effect one- month after they have been officially brought to» his attention unless hes sees a need tso re- fer them back to -the board for fur- ther study. The seven lay msembers of the new board are all parents—they harve a total of 27 childaren, ranging -from pre-schoolers to coSlege level. All 14 members had volunteered for service on the board. The saeven lay persons were selected from snore than 300 applicants; the seven others from about 60 applicants. According to thae Official CatMolic Directory, which was published im the Spring of this year-, there are 34M,185 students in the archdiocese's elemen- tary and secondary schools. There are a total of 12,561 aarchdiocesan teach- ers with 5,858 of Oiem laity. \\\* FORMAN'S SHAPES IT <?>:> ^y Shop of FormanV Midrown Tuesday end Thursday until 9 • Culver-Ridge and Pirtsford Monday througjh Friday until 9 • Brighton Thursday and Friday until 9 i.t. m Father Juan Manuel R trusting roles inHifer member of the Motrico will play six more gan Spain Priests, Ac Bilbao, Spain — (.NC) in the Basque region of £ new dimension. One bisht to attend a reception for simo Francisco Franco, anc strict outlines for sermons and independent Catholic a eminent publications are e: disputo over how to re events. ~ Bishop Lorenzo Ber Balerdi of San Sebastian, resort In northern Spain, b: tradition by failing to job eception committee -when summer season. ThegoveitoenfRais susj civil rights in Gulpuzcoa c in which the San S-ebasti is located — in its fight a* it.calls a terrorist orjjanlzz op Bereciartua protested i pastoral letter that pri being arrested and haras: violation of the Spanish with the Holy See. In the diocese of Bilb- Pablo (Jurplde Beope, a r has issued an outline for £ mons and warned his pries to it \To follow this outline tory for all priests, dloces; ligious,\ his order read. \ from it means serious disot a superior authority •who i reasons for his decision.\ He added that, because • anarchical preaching in many souls were suffering His sermon restrictions the heels of the resignat priests who make up the C Teache Some 15.000 striking U ^qptTwClne protest c president of the United the Bound of Education tered its second we*k, hi tf &<M $#.#£,.$•*.
